Our Best Friend
Helen Keller overcame the formidable obstacle of blindness to become one of history’s most inspiring women. When she once was asked if anything could possibly be worse than living without […]
Blindness
The Big Broadcast
Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see. In today’s Gospel reading,
The Creator’s Envoys
From the “good old days” in an oil-rich Texas boom-town, comes the story of a local tycoon who presented his fellow citizens with a beautiful park-site with a large lake
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Come On Home!
To conclude a long sermon on repentance, a fire-and-brimstone preacher said forcefully, “I want everyone in this congregation to know that there is one among us who especially needs to
Miracles Of Love
Several years ago a well-known movie-maker assembled a group of New Testament scholars and other experts on the life of Jesus. The film director wanted advice on whether or not
By Faith And Not By Sight
Once upon a time, there was a beggar. Early each morning, with his tin cup in hand, he would walk from the outskirts of town and cross over a bridge
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The Gift Of Sight
One of the things about God that should impress us most and bring us the greatest joy is the way in which He gives us signs of His presence, constantly.
The Good Life
The Gift of the Holy Spirit is intended by God to bear much fruit in us. Paul describes the fruit of the Holy Spirit in the Fifth Chapter of Galatians.
A Field Of Buttercups
On August 5, 1942, an orphanage (called “Our Home”) in the Warsaw ghetto was emptied of its 200 Jewish children. They were to be marched to the little village of
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It’s Worth The Risk
On Christmas Day we will celebrate what God, our Creator, did nearly two thousand years ago. He sent His own loving Christ Spirit into our world in the form of
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Seeing Jesus
I’m sure that many of you know the legend of the six blind men who were led to an elephant so they could examine it. The first man touched the
It Makes Complete Sense!
In the first panel of a particularly insightful “Peanuts” cartoon, Little Lucy, her fist clenched, is running after Charlie Brown. “I’ll get you Charlie Brown! I’ll get you!” she says.
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Something That Lasts Forever
In John’s Gospel it is written, “When Jesus spoke to the people, He said, ‘I am the Light of the World; anyone who follows Me will not be walking in
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Worth The Risk
The following true story appeared in a New York Times feature: It happened to me the other day. As the subway train pulled out of Times Square on its way
